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-<sect2>
-<title>Contents</title>
-
-<para>
-The Ncurses package contains the ncurses, panel, menu and form
-libraries. It also contains the tic, infocmp, clear, tput, toe and tset
-programs.
-</para>
-
-</sect2>
-
-<sect2><title>Description</title>
-
-<sect3><title>The libraries</title>
-
-<para>
-The libraries that make up the Ncurses library are used to display text
-(often in a fancy way) on your screen. An example where ncurses is used
-is in the kernel's <quote>make menuconfig</quote> process. The libraries
-contain routines to create panels, menu's, form and general text display
-routines.
-</para>
-
-</sect3>
-
-<sect3><title>Tic</title>
-
-<para>
-Tic is the terminfo entry-description compiler. The program translates a
-terminfo file from source format into the binary format for use with the
-ncurses library routines. Terminfo files contain information about the
-capabilities of your terminal.
-</para>
-
-</sect3>
-
-<sect3><title>Infocmp</title>
-
-<para>
-The infocmp program can be used to compare a binary terminfo entry with
-other
-terminfo entries, rewrite a terminfo description to take advantage of
-the
-use= terminfo field, or print out a terminfo description from the
-binary
-file (term) in a variety of formats (the opposite of what tic does).
-</para>
-
-</sect3>
-
-<sect3><title>clear</title>
-
-<para>
-The clear program clears your screen if this is possible. It looks in
-the environment for the terminal type and then in the terminfo database
-to
-figure out how to clear the screen.
-</para>
-
-</sect3>
-
-<sect3><title>tput</title>
-
-<para>
-The tput program uses the terminfo database to make the values of
-terminal-dependent capabilities and information available to the shell,
-to
-initialize or reset the terminal, or return the long name of the
-requested
-terminal type.
-</para>
-
-</sect3>
-
-<sect3><title>toe</title>
-
-<para>
-The toe program lists all available terminal types by primary name with
-descriptions.
-</para>
-
-</sect3>
-
-<sect3><title>tset</title>
-
-<para>
-The Tset program initializes terminals so they can be used, but it's not
-widely used anymore. It's provided for 4.4BSD compatibility.
-</para>
-
-</sect3>
-
-</sect2>
-